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This is the original film portraying the quintessential long-suffering Jewish mother that set the standard for all films to come. Based on Fannie Hurst's novel of the same name, HUMORESQUE tells the tale of a young Jewish man pushed by his Yiddish mama to become a great violinist. His arm is injured in World War I, but he is miraculously healed through love and goes on with his musical career. Influenced by the Yiddish stage, the film is heavily sentimentalized, romanticized and melodramatic. Director Borzage presents the Lower East Side less as a depressed neighborhood than as an exalted state of mind.
